The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-07-15
SUCH IS NEWSPAPER FAME.

Whist the Press Says Of People Whom
the World Ought To Know.
Mr.. Bancroft keeps eight type writer's
busy.
Miss Braddon il about to publish her
1ftieth novel.
The empress Of Japan contemplates
visiting this country soon.
Gen. Sheridan gets seasick an coon as
he sails the ocean main.
Justice Miller Is now the Oldest occu-
pant of the supreme court bench.
John Albertson, of Staked Plains, Tex, ,
the other day killed q prairie dog that had
three good eyes.
Col. Merriam, commandant at Fort
Laramie, is in Europe, trying to introduce
his improved knepsack in the European
armies.
Ex-Empress Eugenie has applied to the
city government of Naples for permission
to enter the hospital as nurse, and care
for the soldiers wounded at Massowah.
Miss Annie Thomas, Of BILLINGS, Mon,
Is the busiest woman in that busy terri
tory. She conducts 5000 acre ranch,
looks after valuable timber property, and
has an interest in two paying mines near
Butte City.
NRhe cars eldest son, who has entered
pm his twentieth year, has tenor
voice Of rare beauty and great compass.
For some time past his musical studies
have been interrupted owing to illness,
but they have been recently resumed.
There is a farmer named Bill living
near Saybrook, Conn. This of itself is
not remarkable circumstance, but the
fact that his full baptismal name is Kan
sas- Nebraska Bill is worthy Of notice. He
is called Nebby for short.
DR.. George w. Bull, young New
York surgeon who has been prosecuting
his studies in the laboratory of an emf
nent oculist in Paris, has invented an in
strument by which the length or limit Of
vision can be instantly determined.
There is very wonderful old lady at
Maidstone, Eng, who has been known
since girlhood as the "Fair Maid of Kent"
She is 103 years old and ia said to retain
slight traces Of her former marvellous
beauty.
Through the generosity of Jay Gould
of Washington lies entombed, has been
enlarged by the addition of a tract of
thirty-three and half acres on the north.
sion. The acquisition of this tract was
much needed to protect the property from
encroachment.
Cadet Skunk, of Pennsylvania, who has
been graduated at the head Of his class at
West Point, is a grandson Of former
governor of the Keystone state. Governor
Skunk was a self made man. He was
obliged to 60 to work at 10 years of age,
but managed to ''pick up'' sufficient edu-
cation to become school teacher at 10.
He taught school for nine years. He was
twice elected governor of Pennsylvania.
The explorer, Henry M. Stanley, is said
to have acquired by purchase of the native
chiefs several of the most commanding
sites and large tracts of the richest terri
tory in Africa, which he intends to hold
by title, trusting to time to make it re-
munerative. He took the precaution to
have white witnesses to all his transac-
tons, which were verified by written in
struments. The consideration was, of
course, comparatively trifiing
- Mn ,Ezxls, Q,Raillx has a. beautiful
AZ plaster head and bust, Of life size,
done by Mr.. John Donoghue, the Bos-
ton sculptor, and sent to New York
for perpetuatiOn in bronze, has been ex-
hibited to favored few within day or
two past. 1t is like her, for it has life
likeness marked in every line. The
model has Greek face, eyes almost with
speech in them, lips parted, hair drawn
hack and loosely knotted behind.
Charles Alden, of Randolph, Mass,
once one of the richest inventors in New
England committed suicide to escape the
pangs of poverty. For one patent alone,
that for the evaporation of apples, he re-
ceived the sum Of $500, 1000 In former
years he was member of the board OF
New York aldermen, and was looked
upon as one7 of the most promising real
estate dealers in the metropolis. Unfor-
tunate speculations swept all his posses
sions away.
Gems. Sherman and Sheridan expressed
q wish while at West Point recently to
have their portraits placed beside that OF
Grant in Grant Hall. Mr.. Childs, who
presented West Point with the portrait OF
Grant, told Sherman and Sheridan that
he would gladly add theiS pictures to his
gift, and added that they were at liberty
to choose their own artists. The portraits
of the two generals are to be Of the same
size as that of Gen. Grant.